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Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
RRP: $15.47$10.87'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George OrwellIn 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year, and Pictures from Italy is an illuminating account of his... -
George I (Penguin Monarchs): The Lucky King by Tim Blanning
RRP: $6.44$4.90'One stroke of good fortune after another had taken him to be ... the sovereign of three kingdoms and thus ruler of what was rapidly becoming the most prosperous and powerful empire in the world'George I was probably the most important of the... -
The Lion House: The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent by Christopher de Bellaigue
RRP: $14.18$10.02An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century.'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph'A formidable book ... incredible' Rory StewartVenice, 1522. Intelligence... -
Anne Frank's Story by Carol Ann Lee
RRP: $9.02$6.62The life story of Anne Frank, from her early happy childhood in Frankfurt, growing up in Amsterdam, her two years in hiding and the last few months of her life in the concentration camps. Narrated in six clearly written chapters, this biography for... -
Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs: The Left Bank World of Shakespeare and Co by Jeremy Mercer
RRP: $12.89$8.77Enchanting memoir of a struggling writer living and working in the eccentric Parisian bookshop, 'Shakespeare and Company''Completely riveting ...a vivid picture of modern Paris' OBSERVER'Shakespeare and Company' in Paris is one of the world's most famous... -
An Honourable Exit by Eric Vuillard
RRP: $19.34$13.66From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'Excoriating and profound . . . A... -
Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine by Timothy Snyder 9780300125993
$33.95The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyiv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles-intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, lifelong... -
British Warship Losses in the Modern Era: 1920 1982 by Hepper, David
RRP: $38.70$28.32This important new reference work details all those ships and vessels of the Royal Navy, large and small, which were lost by accident or enemy action, during the twentieth century, from the end of the First World War, to the last years of the century. In... -
Crimea by Orlando Figes
RRP: $24.50$17.56Orlando Figes' Crimea is a powerful history of the Crimean War, the conflict that dominated the nineteenth century. The Crimean War one of the fiercest battles in Russia's history, killing nearly a million men and completely redrawing the map of Europe... -
Who Will Write Our History?: Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto by Samuel D. Kassow
RRP: $23.21$16.71In the Autumn of 1940 the Jews of Warsaw were forced into a crowded ghetto, enduring unimaginable conditions until most were killed. Yet, amid this, one man, Emanuel Ringelblum, started an extraordinary clandestine organization dedicated to recording... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk 9781803993607
RRP: $20.63$15.80'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' Jeremy Vine'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the... -
The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789 by T. C. W. Blanning 9780199265619
$87.09In this fascinating new account of Old Regime Europe, T. C. W. Blanning explores the cultural revolution which transformed eighteenth-century Europe. During this period the court culture exemplified by Louis XIV's Versailles was pushed from the centre to... -
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources by M. Kat Anderson 9780520280434
RRP: $38.70$30.56John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today - that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the... -
The Mortal Sickness: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 2 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: $12.89$8.77'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the second instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesWhen a spinster of the parish is found bludgeoned to death... -
The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $19.34$14.13Few twentieth-century political leaders enjoyed greated popularity among their own people than Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. This remarkable study of the myth that sustained one of the most notorious dictators, and delves into Hitler's extraordinarily... -
Stephen (Penguin Monarchs): The Reign of Anarchy by Carl Watkins
RRP: $10.31$7.47'Stephen risked being seen as a man who never quite transcended the essential flawed-ness of his claim to be king. His actions betrayed uneasiness in his new skin' Remembered as a time in which 'Christ and his saints slept', Stephen's troubled reign... -
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover 9780733339813
RRP: $16.76$10.94The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be - and just how far we have come. 'It was simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'.There's plenty of... -
The New Politics of Russia: Interpreting Change, Revised and Updated Edition by Andrew Monaghan 9781526155610
RRP: $19.34$14.34This illuminating book explains how and why Russia's relations with the west have deteriorated to the point of initiating a new era of 'great power competition'. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in relations... -
Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found by Gillian Hutchinson
RRP: $25.80$20.28In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage - the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The expedition was expected to complete its mission within three years and return home in triumph... -
London Map of Days by Mychael Barratt
$10.24The brainchild of Canadian-born, London-based artist, Mychael Barratt, London Map of Days is a miscellany of facts and fictions arranged around the events and characters of our capital city. Based upon an original and very limited eight-plate etching... -
Modern Small Arms: 300 of the World's Greatest Small Arms by Chris McNab
RRP: $16.76$11.26Modern Small Arms looks in detail at 300 of the most widely used pistols, rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and other small arms of the last 100 years. It includes famous small arms such as the AK-47, the M16, the SA80, the Lee Enfield, the MP40, the... -
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown by Alexander Larman 9781474623971
RRP: $14.18$9.55'This riotous and engaging biography has it all'GUARDIAN'As much fun to read as a good political thriller'WALL STREET JOURNALAt the outbreak of war, the British monarchy was in turmoil. Edward VIII had abdicated, leaving his brother Bertie to take on a... -
The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia: the Reckoning by Ed Vulliamy
RRP: $19.34$14.13Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never end. This is a book about post-conflict irresolution, about the lives of those who survived the gulag of concentration camps... -
Old Chryston and Muirhead by John Hood 9781840334760
RRP: $10.31$9.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334760Author John HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm) 173mm *... -
The Early History of Rome by Livy
RRP: $16.76$11.73'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds'Livy dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of... -
Old Southgate and Palmers Green by Bernard Byrom 9781840334241
RRP: $18.00$16.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334241Author Bernard ByromFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 275mm... -
Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations by Mikael Weissmann 9781350429093
RRP: $28.37$26.01This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Hybrid Warfare refers to a military strategy that blends conventional warfare, so-called 'irregular warfare' and... -
Forest of Foes by Matthew Harffy
RRP: $12.89$9.17In this action-packed new Bernicia Chronicles adventure from Matthew Harffy, Beobrand finds himself in a dangerous foreign land, caught between warring factions of royalty and the Church. AD 652. Beobrand has been ordered to lead a group of pilgrims... -
Cold War: East Anglia by Jim Wilson
RRP: $20.63$15.80This is the story of how the Cold War impacted on the people of East Anglia. Had nuclear conflict broken out, the region would have found itself as the target of a Soviet strike for the simple reason that it housed the launch pad for not only the British... -
Facing the Red Army in Festung Posen: First-Hand Accounts of German Soldiers on the Eastern Front in 1945 by Hans Klapa 9781399061759
RRP: $28.38$22.73Facing the Red Army in Festung Posen features the stories of two German soldiers who took part in the battles for Festung Posen (Pozna? Fortress) in January and February 1945. Never before published in English, the accounts of Hans Klapa, written... -
Court and Civic Society in the Burgundian Low Countries C.1420-1530 by Andrew Brown 9780719056208
RRP: $25.79$22.99This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with... -
Lost Cars of the 1970s by Giles Chapman
RRP: $23.21$17.60Sixty diverse cars, sixty fascinating stories, sixty contrasting specifications, just one uniting factor: they're all forgotten, neglected or misunderstood classics.In Lost Cars of the 1970s, the casualties and sideshows of motoring history from around... -
Standing Heavy by Gauz
RRP: $15.48$9.02"One of those rare, transformative novels" KARIM MISKE"Funny and poignant" TIFFANY TSAO, author of The MajestiesInitially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile.The security guard adores babies. Perhaps because babies... -
A Practical Guide to the Runes: Their Uses in Divination and Magick by Lisa Peschel 9780875425931
RRP: $10.31$7.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875425931Author Lisa PeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Publisher Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 101g -
Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle: Divination and Democracy by Hugh Bowden
RRP: $43.85$36.61The Delphic Oracle was where, according to Greek tradition, Apollo would speak through his priestesses. This work explores the importance placed on consultations at Delphi by Athenians in the city's age of democracy. It demonstrates the extent to which... -
The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 3, Total War: Economy, Society and Culture by Michael Geyer 9781108406413
RRP: $54.17$46.47The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War adopts a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive and global analysis of the... -
Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Euripides 9781603847353
RRP: $16.76$14.27Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and... -
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend by Casey Tefertiller 9780471189671
RRP: $45.14$29.45"Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a moredeeply researched and convincing account." --Evan Connell, authorSon of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn "The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and... -
Dreamland: The Secret History of Area 51 by Peter W. Merlin 9780764367090
RRP: $89.00$59.40Area 51, a top-secret military installation hidden in the desert northwest of Las Vegas, has been shrouded in mystery since 1955. Now, aerospace historian Peter Merlin cuts through the myths and conspiracy folklore to reveal in extraordinary detail the... -
King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig
RRP: $32.25$20.95A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the...